winter game sales your opinion?

It's getting worse every year. I feel like global warming and Steam are connected in some way.

Games bought so far: 0 - there's my opinion.

One big boring... games from wishlist still on prices that iam not able pay for them, so nothing :)

I'm only selling trading cards and nothing else.
My wishlist has no -90% so... nothing bought =)

so you are telling me that was the winter sale ???? i was still waiting for it D:

only bought borderlands pre sequel + seasonpass so far

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No flash/daily deals, some AAA games are not in sale, no minigame like it was during summer sale.. I'm afraid what would be in next sale.

Shelled around 40 euro so the discounts were, as usual, pretty good.

As an event though, it's absolutely terrible. I remember the auctions last year, the achievements in games in 2011, this year nothing except a crappy comic. It's like they didn't even try to do something and just went "buy games and gtfo". Unless those Reddit rumors are founded and they're somehow planning to unveil HL3 or something, but even if that were true, that's a pretty bad way to do it.

I feel like most of the sale discounts really haven't changed, but I don't like the removal of flash/daily sales for two reasons.

1. The flash/daily sales brought me a lot of joy. I was excited every day to log on to see what offers they sprinkled extra sugar on.

2. A lot of publishers are pulling shady shit. (UBISOFT) A lot of them are selling their games at a lower discount at the start of a sale, and then discount it even further later down the sale. Even Fallout 4 received the same treatment (Full price since the beginning of the sale until like 2 days ago it received a 17% discount) So really, you could miss a lot of better deals this sale and get severely ripped off if you don't buy at the right time.

I felt like the sales were a little better than last year. (or maybe it's just because some of the games I wanted had been out for so long they were finally on sale...) I didn't see many sales which were lower than any sale ever...
And this sale is boring, nothing fun about it. I miss when they went all out, like the sale with the prizes (free games or coupons) for playing and getting achievements in certain games. This was back when they announced they would give out first 10 wishlist games to a few lucky people... Not sure if they will ever put in this much effort again. It would be interesting to see the steam profit compared to the types of sale they had and if the whizzbangs made any difference.

Certainly worse than last year. Purchased only one wishlisted so far by selling cards as unemployment doesn't leave me many options ;)

On the other hand, Origin had some pretty big sales. 60% for BF4 for example was an amazing chance to get it!

I bought nothing this sale
But at autumn sale I bought AC Unity for 20$ And in 3 weeks it became 16$ :S

Seriously, i hated flash deals.
I do loved the one and main thing about then tought: the price.

But the whole 'keep waiting', guessing and in the end not grabing all the best deals or making bad choices ('damn! i could had got those 2 instead of this one!')? No, hated it.

This time around i could plan my self-limited budget in my own pace; I actually browsed better, instead of frantically. The bad side being the prices, of course.

I wasn't on Steam during last winter sale, but I don't like daily deals, that's for sure. I like to plan my budget and use it in the most rational way. And for me prices weren't bad. Games from top of my wishlist were discounted more that I thought they'll be, so I'm happy. I bought more that I expected for the same amount of money.

I don't like it! No flash/daily sales, boring crappy comic, some games are not in sale from my wishlist and others are still too expensive or have weak discount, especially various DLC, and selling my trading cards do not go according to plan because no mini game = less crafting = no special items = boring!

Wasn't anticipating buying much, but what irked me was that using Enhanced Steam for price history is that many games I hoped to pick up were cheaper during last year's Christmas sale. Probably because they were offered as flash sales that don't exist anymore.

Oh well. It's not like I don't have a backlog to work on anyway.

Well, everyone keeps complaining but it is the same as always. Most games wont get cheaper soon so if you want it buy it and if you dont have the money you dont right? :D

P.S. i bought fallout new vegas

Look at what all thoere whiner cuases everyone this christmas sale nothing but just boring $%#$ joke I hope all you cry bady are happy now.
This the worse sale ever I love all other sale
To me it much in way of sale as there are no extra bouns discount like we use to get.
Very weak discount with DLC as that mustly what on my wishlist

I bought only one game (the last episode of 12 Labours of Hercules), and not even because of the sale but because, for some strange reason, the publisher decided to release it during the sale event. Last year at least I snagged a few HOGs on the auction.

why are people getting so greedy... If you dont like the amount of %, pay fully price then! or dont buy it and use desura, uplay or origin instead!

it sucks in so many levels that I can't really show my opinion with lovely words. almost all deals had better price last sale.

Not bad sales but more or less the same as others for me and this time i've spend more money.

Looking at the front page, it would seem like the prices on those game shown there match roughly what you would expect them to be at on a daily deal or flash sale. This leads me to believe that the perceived "crappiness" of the sale is more psychological than anything else. You don't get the scarcity mentality thing going, and thus you're better at evaluating if you actually want the games on sale. I suspect that the changes made are bad for steam, but good for the end user, as we're less likely to just throw money at steam due to a fear of losing out.

Worst discount (for example some games have been discounted 75% off for years and now only 50 or 66%). No event... No flash sales no daily deal, getting worden every sale.

it's awesome so far for me, i bought some games to give away here, better than for myself. :3

i really hated the silly events valve always sets up, and flash discounts.